However, the body of the zombie was originally copper-skinned and iron-boned. Chen Yu didn’t consider what the sword could do. She controlled the Soul Summoning Bell and compass still flanking the zombie and attacked him non-stop.
The compass kept spinning, shrouded in spiritual power. It kept smashing into the zombie’s body and trying to find the zombie’s weakest defense.
The Soul Summoning Bell constantly jingled in the zombie’s ear, emitting sound waves that could make the evil spirit dizzy.
The zombie’s movements seemed a little sluggish. The two magical weapons annoyed him, and he stretched his hands to swat them away. However, how could he catch such flexible magical weapons?Chen Yu took advantage of the zombie’s inattention, and rushed forward with another sword strike, piercing the zombie’s feet straight down.
“Poof… Graah…” The sword containing all of Chen Yu’s spiritual power only pierced the zombie’s shoe, revealing pitch-black rigid toes inside.
Seeing that the zombie was ignoring her, Chen Yu took the opportunity to take out a high-grade Spirit-Repelling Talisman and directly attached it to the zombie’s calf. The advanced talisman ignited in an instant. The zombie screamed in pain and shot a foot up to kick Chen Yu. Chen Yu reflexively flipped sideways and dodged it.
“Fellow Daoist… Chen…” Seeing Chen Yu fighting with the zombie alone, Lu Ning laboriously raised his peach wooden sword to help, but he couldn’t budge an inch forward under the overpowering evil qi.
The other two were not much better than Lu Ning. Their only luck was that their spiritual power could ward off the erosion of evil qi, but they couldn’t move a step at all.
“Don’t face the cave entrance!” Chen Yu took the moment to turn her head and found that the three were standing straight in front of the cave entrance. The evil qi in the cave was pouring straight towards them, and the zombie had accumulated years of evil qi. Hence, they were immobilized.
The friends reacted. They first backed away a few steps, changed direction towards the zombie, and found that mobility wasn’t as difficult as just now. Then, each raised their peach wooden sword and advanced to help.
Compared to the attacks of the Soul Summoning Bell and the compass, the four people simply couldn’t dent the defense of the zombie. The zombie was completely indifferent to their assault. He was just annoyed and raised his leg, kicking Shao Qi away who tried to attack him.
“Our spiritual power is too weak to hurt the zombie at all,” Liang Guang said in frustration.
The other two also noticed this problem, and both looked unsightly.
Chen Yu clenched her teeth and threw her bag of talismans to Lu Ning, instructing him, “The talismans inside are still somewhat useful. You guys help me trap the zombie.”
“What about you?” Liang Guang asked.
“I’m going to have a look in the cave,” Chen Yu said, “Didn’t Qin Guanhai say there is a magic weapon here? There’s no surprise; this magic weapon must be to suppress this zombie. I’ll search for it.”
“The evil qi in the cave is more powerful than the outside,” Lu Ning said worriedly.
“It’s okay. I’m not afraid of evil qi,” Chen Yu said while manipulating the compass to draw the zombie away from the cave.
The group also knew that this might their only way out. Chen Yu waited until the three of them had taken the talismans, and sprinted towards the cave the moment the zombie turned to hit the compass.
“Roar !!!”
“Look out!!”
The moment Chen Yu approached the cave entrance, the zombie, who had been busy knocking down the compass, seemed to be enraged by something. He turned around and leaped, swinging a fist at Chen Yu’s head.
Chen Yu sensed the danger. She bent her knees, abruptly changing the direction of her forward thrust, and narrowly avoided the zombie’s punch. But the zombie didn’t let Chen Yu go this time. Chen Yu seemed to have completely riled him. The zombie ignored the compass and the Soul Summoning Bell and attacked Chen Yu wholeheartedly.
The zombie hounded Chen Yu. After dodging several times, she was accidentally knocked to the ground by the zombie’s fist. When the zombie swung his fist anew, the compass immediately flew over and blocked the fist.
“Bzzz-bzzz…” The compass spun rapidly, and the spiritual power around it flourished.
Before Chen Yu could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw the zombie stretch out his other hand. He grabbed the compass, then squeezed it hard, and a clear ‘click’ entered Chen Yu’s ears clearly.
“Compass!” Chen Yu’s expression drastically changed, but she had lost the compass’s aura.
“Jing-ding-ding…” The Soul Summoning Bell shook fiercely, but the zombie turned a deaf ear to it. He tossed the compass in his hand away, and swung another fist straight to the fallen Chen Yu.
“Fellow Daoist Chen!!!” Lu Ning and his company were scared. They darted over to save her, raising three advanced Spirit-Repelling Talisman on the zombie’s body in unison.
“Bang-bang-bang!” Three huge spiritual power blasts still failed to stop the zombie’s movement, and his fist was about to bash Chen Yu’s face.
Before Chen Yu’s trip outside, she used most of her spiritual power to replace the evil qi in Lou Ming’s body, so she didn’t have much spiritual power in her body. Also, she controlled magic weapons just now and battled with the zombie for a long time. Hence, at this point, she had no excess spirit qi. Now that danger was close at hand, Chen Yu almost instinctively mobilized what was left on her, the evil qi she had absorbed from Lou Ming. She raised both hands tightly and blocked the right fist of the zombie.
“Boom!”
After the blood-red evil qi and the zombie’s pitch-black evil qi collided, Chen Yu blocked the zombie’s fist under the remaining three people’s disbelief.
“Roar, roar!”
The millenium-old zombie obviously didn’t expect his fist to be blocked. Thinking it was because he wasn’t strong enough, he retrieved his fist and delivered another smashing punch down.
Then came the second punch, the third punch,…
If Lou Ming’s evil spirit could also resist a zombie’s evil qi, Chen Yu’s strength couldn’t resist the brute force of a zombie at all. When struggling to resist the third fist, Chen Yu felt as if her arm was about to break. However, the zombie in front of her didn’t give her a chance to breathe, so the fourth fist pummeled down again…
Bastard… Why are you targeting my face? Won’t I really die very ugly?!
“Shishi!” When Lou Ming and Elder Wu arrived, what they saw was a huge zombie, pressing Chen Yu to the ground and pounding her.
Before Lou Ming could think, scarlet blood instantly took over his eyes, and he ran towards Chen Yu in a mad rush.
“Come back!” Elder Wu’s face suddenly changed. He reached out to stop him, but caught an empty air.
“Boom!”
Just as Chen Yu closed her eyes and twisted her head in an attempt not to be punched into a big pie-faced ghost, a white, thin arm stopped the zombie’s robust, pitch-black arm.
“It’s over!” Elder Wu instantly tensed up.
The moment Lou Ming came into contact with the zombie, a majestic evil spirit suddenly rose from his body, and the red evil qi instantly rushed away from the dark evil qi, as if a burning flame started a prairie fire.
“Graah… Graah-graaah!” The zombie tried to retrieve his gripped arm.
Chen Yu didn’t feel the expected sharp pain. Instead, she perceived a familiar evil spirit. She blinked her eyes and aimed at Lou Ming whose face was condensed with evil qi.
“Third Brother?!” Chen Yu was startled.
Lou Ming turned his head and looked at Chen Yu. His bloodshot eyes were more terrifying than the zombie. He looked coldly at Chen Yu and struggled to spit out a word: “Go…”
“Third Brother, what happened to you?” Chen Yu got up from the ground and was about to check Lou Ming’s condition when Elder Wu, who suddenly appeared, pulled her by the collar and dragged her away.
“Roar, roar, roar!” The zombie sensed that the person in front of him seemed to be much stronger than himself. He wanted to break free and escape, desperately flinging his body.
Lou Ming’s face had long lost expression. He used his right hand to hold the zombie’s arm tightly, so no matter how violently the zombie struggled, he couldn’t break free.
“Grandpa!” When Chen Yu saw Elder Wu, she immediately became excited. “Grandpa, quickly go and help Third Brother.”
“Where does he need my help?” Elder Wu lifted his chin and motioned Chen Yu to look ahead.
Chen Yu turned and looked at the place where Lou Ming was confronting the zombie. The pitch-black evil qi that was around the zombie had long been swallowed by Lou Ming’s blood-red evil spirit. The two-meter-tall zombie was trembling violently in front of Lou Ming’s 1.8-meter-tall frame, but he couldn’t break free.
“Bang!” Lou Ming suddenly raised his hand, and flung the two-meter-tall zombie straight to the ground. Then, he advanced with the upper hand and rained down punches after punches to the zombie’s face, hitting the zombie until he screamed.
“At this juncture, he still has time to exact revenge!” Elder Wu couldn’t help but remark.
Lou Ming punched and punched without pause until the zombie on the ground stopped moving. The black evil qi was completely dissipated, and the huge body turned into a puddle of ashes before he stopped.
The powerful former millenium-old zombie lasted less than three minutes under Lou Ming’s hands.
“Third Brother!” Chen Yu saw that the zombie had been solved and attempted to run towards Lou Ming.
“Don’t go over there!” Elder Wu dragged Chen Yu with him.
Chen Yu looked at him in confusion.
“He is much more dangerous than the zombie now.” Elder Wu looked at the young man who slowly stood up from the ground with a gloomy expression. His profound fiend soared, and his eyes were ice-cold. He glanced straight at them.
“Third Brother’s evil spirit is rioting, Grandpa. Go help him seal it.” Chen Yu did not have enough spiritual power to help seal it, so she could only ask her grandfather.
“It can’t be sealed!” Elder Wu blocked Chen Yu behind him and said, “The zombie has been wiped out, and the magical barrier should have opened. Quickly go outside.”
“Grandpa, what do you mean?” Chen Yu, who felt a bad premonition, looked at her grandfather.
“Lou Ming himself probably doesn’t want to go out like this to cause harm to the world,” Elder Wu replied and directly drew the peach wooden sword from Chen Yu’s hand.
Lou Ming’s own evil spirit was already on the verge of collapse, and he couldn’t withstand another riot. What was more, he had just absorbed the evil qi of a millennium-old zombie. He was already at a point of no return.
Just now, when Lou Ming moved to save Chen Yu, Elder Wu knew it would be bad. Unfortunately, Lou Ming moved too fast, and he couldn’t stop him in time.
Chen Yu looked at Elder Wu in horror: Grandpa is… he’s going to kill Third Brother!
The author has something to say:
After seeing Lou Ming’s evil spirit rioting, Elder Wu’s inner thoughts were like this.
Elder Wu: I’m a Celestial Master who has dealt with zombies. Why did you run there? You’re amazing for running faster than me, ah! This was originally just about capturing a zombie. What do you want me to do now?